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eats from beginning

to end—

—grain, rice, beans, flour—

—is just millions upon

millions of little meals meant

for other offspring. Ground,

mashed, fried, roasted, mixed,

and pressed.

And that’s just seeds. We

haven’t even started scrambling

eggs yet.

When you think egg, you

cannot limit that category to

bug eggs or fish eggs or any

other you could hold in the

palm of your hand. You have

to include mammalian eggs,

too. Human eggs.

The placenta has

largely replaced the need

for our embryonic egg

sacs, but they still provide

important support

during early

development, and—

—you see, this is when things

begin to get complicated again.

To make things easier, think

of seeds and fertilized eggs as

the same thing.